The Boy With Two Shadows

Author: Margaret Mahy
Publisher: Puffin
Category: Storybooks
Age Group: 5-9
Book Format: Paperback

A young boy who agrees to take care of a witch's shadow while she is on vacation finds that having two shadows creates some unexpected problems.

About Margaret Mahy
Date- 2013-08-06 Margaret Mahy is internationally recognised as one of today's best writers for young readers, her books having been translated into all the major languages of the world. Twice winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal, she has also won the Esteher Glen Award five times and the Observer Teenage Fiction Award once. Born in a country town in New Zealand, the oldest of a family of five, with over twenty cousins in the surrounding neighbourhood, Margaret Mahy grew up with a strong sense of being part of a close family. She lives near Christchurch in New Zealand. In 1936, the year Margaret Mahy was born, only four books for children were published in New Zealand. Mahy was influential in changing the landscape of children's literature in her homeland - one of the most prolific of authors, she penned over 100 titles. Her output includes poetry, picture books, works for older children, teenage novels, television scripts and stories for magazines and newspapers. Mahy grew up in a close family with five brothers and sisters. Her always vivid imagination made life at school interesting rather than easy. After seeing The Jungle Book, she announced to her astonished seven-year-old classmates that she could talk to animals - 'I had to resort to talking a certain gibberish and eating leaves and drinking out of puddles to prove how close I was to the

(BK-9780143504405)

SKU BK-9780143504405
Barcode # 9780143504405
Brand Puffin
Artist / Author Margaret Mahy
Shipping Weight 0.0200kg
Shipping Width 0.210m
Shipping Height 0.200m
Shipping Length 0.215m
Assembled Length 21.000m
Assembled Height 20.000m
Assembled Width 21.500m
Type Paperback

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